The Grandfather's Rite

From the Sacred Text:

"And when I looked into the Grandfather's eyeless face,

when I saw my childhood and memories fade away from my body and into His

glory, I felt at peace.

I knew that I had lost years of experience, but I did not care.

Instead, I resolved to replace all that experience. I would assimilate

knowledge, following in the Grandfather's footsteps.

For the Grandfather is the ultimate collector of knowledge,

and through Him all knowledge must flow."

From the Archive Codex:

"None may join with us who have not met the Grandfather.

To become one of us, one must first seek out the Grandfather

and give unto Him a piece of oneself.

Only then may one be eligible to join with the Archive."

NOTE: So basically what all this means is that, in order to join the Archive, you have to lose your childhood to the Grandfather. He's usually found in libraries, but he's been seen in other places too.

Me? I met the Grandfather for the first time when I was 16. It was back in 1998, and I had some essay due. So I went to the library to study. There I met an old man who asked me my name. I was kind of confused, but I told him anyway. He wrote it down in a book he was carrying and walked away. It wasn't until after he was gone that I realized the man was blind, and it wasn't until after I'd gotten home and seen all those unfamiliar framed photographs on the wall that I realized that I'd lost all memory of the first 13 years of my life. That's what the Grandfather does-- he collects childhoods.

I eventually met a man calling himself Collector Delta. He taught me amazing things about the Grandfather and told me about the Archive. There was little left for me at home-- only three years worth of memories-- so I decided to leave with CΔ and join the Archive. Paul, my boyfriend, tried to stop me. He said that the Archive was just a cult and that I needed help from a hospital. He told me he wouldn't let me leave with CΔ.

He was the first person I ever killed. --SΣ